Boy, is that deceptive. They lure you in with the big number, and then charge you almost a penny more. Boycott them, and complain to your local Better Business Bureau. Spend your Saturday picketing. If we all band together on this boycott we can move on to prices ending in 9.

"Better to get House Republican's to ban this practice."And all prices that aren't even dollar amounts in every business in the country, while they are at it?Think about how ridiculous that is, and think about how banning the 9/10 cent would be an unearned gift of hundreds of millions of dollars to the retail gas industry.

Its always been that 9/10 cent here in Illinois that Ive seen and Im no youngster. I do boycott Citgo gas since Chavez runs the US in the ground every chance he can and we buy $350 BILLION dollars of oil a year from him. The Gov. should speed up the process of getting us all on compressed natural gas since we have trillions of feet of it. I wrote to my Senator about it 6 years ago and he said it was too hard to get. Maybe Durbin meant Big Oil rather keep us on OPEC oil that they have a stake in. Any way he lost my vote for 2014.

This is one of the dumbest ideas I have ever heard! I'm not going to rehash all of the reasons it's dumb because that would be redundant. Are you maintaining your stance after reading all the replies catfish99 or have you "seen the light"?

Boycott is a joke,the prices have always been that way,so why even do something like that in the first place. I would have to walk a least twenty miles everyday if I did that to and from work five plus days.

The extra "tenths" is a very old tradition that's never gone away. In 1935, a Reno Nevada newspaper wrote about "selling third grade gasoline at eight and nine-tenths cents a gallon."

In those times, a penny had considerable value. To raise the price of gasoline from 8 to 9 cents would be more than a 12 percent hike. To compete, gas stations raised prices by tenths of a penny. Around this time, federal and state excise taxes were also introduced in increments of tenths of a cent, so it made sense to keep the decimal value.

The .9 cents is just marketing - same way retail prices almost always end in 9, or .99 - because it's long been know that consumers will largely ignore the last digits. Gasoline retailing has just long taken that further than anywhere else by adding 9/10 of a cent. Good luck finding a station that doesn't, however.[L=http://www.wisegeek.com/why-do-gas-prices-always-end-in-910-of-a-cent.htm][/L]

Perhaps, and this is just a suggestion, but look up what deceptive means. Since the pricing is in full view of the consumer, there's nothing deceptive about it. Further, all you will end up doing is pricing gasoline higher. That 9/10 will become 10/10 and the price goes up. A lot of the time, the idea is psychological - we'd all rather pay 3.999 a gallon, than 4.00. It's a universal truth. Same reason items in stores are priced at .99 instead of a 1.00; it looks like the better deal.

Really - after decades of this practice of silly pricing that is fully posted on all signs and pumps why would anyone actually, wait a minute, if it was lowered to 8/10s instead of 9/10s I could save a whole $0.60 a year! That is an extra .17gals in my neighborhood. Petition congress now!

Ask for a rebate and you will probably get it. They gave me an address in the Bahamas and I am expecting a rebate soon you just have to mail your receipt with a self addressed return envelope and a ninety nine cent processing fee. Limit 1 receipt per envelopeEasy peasy!

"No tenths at all,max. Call your state attorney general. Better yet, go to his office and refuse to leave until you get a response. Then you will see some government action."

No, no, no. That's the completely wrong approach. We need to petition Congress to authorize the US Mint to begin minting 1/10th cent coins. That way, people will be able to pay precisely for the amount of gasoline they buy, which in turn will force all gas stations to buy new pumps to display the tenths of a cent and new cash registers with drawers that will accommodate the new coins. Once they realize this added expense is because of their pricing policy, they'll relent on their 9/10th pricing nonsense.

"No tenths at all,max. Call your state attorney general. Better yet, go to his office and refuse to leave until you get a response. Then you will see some government action."

What, you actually believe an Attorney General would take action placing restrictions on one category of retailer as to how he can display his price?What a useless waste of time that would be, and costly if it went to court, which it inevitably would. What's next, restricting 7-Eleven from selling chocolate bars 2/.99, because one has to pay an extra 1/2 cent on the purchase of only one?